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Borromeo String Quartet : Acclaim
Borromeo String Quartet
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"Though not the first Bartok marathon in my experience, it was the most intense, performed at a high standard that brought you so deeply into the music's inner workings that you wondered if your brain could take it all in ... The music's mystery, violence, and sorrow become absolutely inescapable." -- David Patrick Stearns | November 13, 2012, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
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"The quintessential American quartet, the Borromeo, transforms its concerts into events both audible and visual." -- BY JOAO MARCOS COELHO | September 12, 2012, ESTADAO
9 months ago | |
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"There really is something different about the Borromeo's ensemble. They are always cohesive and focused as a group, but there is a remarkable freedom in their musical interaction... This was in fact the first time I have heard a really successful traversal of the three last quartets, either in the concert hall or on a recording." -- By Michael Miller | June 16, 2012, THE BERKSHIRE REVIEW
1 year ago | |
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"The Borromeos use recordings to reveal their progress and deep musical knowledge to audiences." -- By Rory Williams | May 12, 2012, STRINGS magazine
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"The four movements of Schubert's quartet had everything a listener could want: drama, intensity, passion, delicacy, exceptional lyricism and interesting lines. The Borromeo played with a controlled abandon that was not only immaculate but left the audience wanting more." -- Geraldine Freedman | April 30, 2012, BERKSHIRE DAILY GAZETTE
1 year ago | |
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"A sense of existential struggle is written into this howling, premonitory music, and the Borromeo dramatized that element, pushing instruments and techniques to their outermost limits."

-- BY Jeremy Eichler | April 18, 2012, BOSTON GLOBE
1 year ago | |
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"Technology has changed the scope of our world. New advances are catapulting us forward, yet the Borromeo String Quartet is using this race into the future to take us closer to our past."

-- BY Trista Bernstein | March 23, 2012, SAN FRANCISCO CLASSICAL VOICE
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"It was an utterly gripping performance, from the hushed but frenetic viola entrance, through the long crescendo, to the triumphant fortissimo." -- By Steve Osborn | March 12, 2012, CLASSICAL SONOMA
1 year ago | |
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"To play alongside the Borromeo String Quartet is to risk seeming bland. Violinists Nicholas Kitchen and Kristopher Tong, violist Mai Motobuchi, and cellist Yeesun Kim purvey musical fervor, extremes both fierce and intimate." -- By Matthew Guerrieri | February 28, 2012, BOSTON GLOBE
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"The Borromeo String Quartet has gone digital." -- By Sarah Freeman | FEBRUARY 24, 2012, INFORMATION IN SOCIAL CONTEXT
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